separate
noun
1 separate
A separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication.
synonyms: offprint, reprint.
Dutch: bijdruk, reprint
Polish: nadbitka
2 separate
A garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments.
verb
1 separate
Act as a barrier between; stand between.
synonym: divide.
Roget 786:
apportion,
divide;
distribute,
administer,
dispense;
billet,
allot,
detail,
cast,
share,
mete;
portion out,
parcel out,
dole out;
deal,
carve.
allocate,
ration,
ration out;
assign;
separate
etc.
44.
partition,
assign,
appropriate,
appoint.
come in for one's share
etc.
(participate)
778.
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2 separate
Force, take, or pull apart:
— He separated the fighting children.
synonyms: disunite, divide, part.
3 separate
Mark as different.
synonyms: differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart.
Roget 905:
live separate;
separate,
divorce,
disespouse†,
put away;
wear the horns.
Roget 465:
discriminate,
distinguish,
severalize†;
recognize,
match,
identify;
separate;
draw the line,
sift;
separate the chaff from the wheat,
winnow the chaff from the wheat;
separate the men from the boys;
split hairs,
draw a fine line,
nitpick,
quibble.
estimate
etc.
(measure)
466;
know which is which,
know what is what,
know 'a hawk from a handsaw'"
[Hamlet].
take into account,
take into consideration;
give due weight to,
allow due weight to;
weigh carefully.
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Roget 55:
be excluded from
&c.;
exclude,
bar;
leave out,
shut out,
bar out;
reject,
repudiate,
blackball;
lay apart,
put apart,
set apart,
lay aside,
put aside;
relegate,
segregate;
throw overboard;
strike off,
strike out;
neglect
etc.
460;
banish
etc.
(seclude)
893;
separate
etc.
(disjoin)
44.
pass over,
omit;
garble;
eliminate,
weed,
winnow.
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Dutch: uiteenhouden, onderscheiden
4 separate
5 separate
Divide into components or constituents.
Dutch: delen, scheiden, splitsen
6 separate
7 separate
Make a division or separation.
synonym: divide.
8 separate
Discontinue an association or relation; go different ways:
— The couple separated after 25 years of marriage.
synonyms: break, break up, part, split, split up.
Roget 44:
be disjoined
&c.;
come off,
fall off,
come to pieces,
fall to pieces;
peel off;
get loose.
disjoin,
disconnect,
disengage,
disunite,
dissociate,
dispair†;
divorce,
part,
dispart†,
detach,
separate,
cut off,
rescind,
segregate;
set apart,
keep apart;
insulate,
isolate;
throw out of gear;
cut adrift;
loose;
unloose,
undo,
unbind,
unchain,
unlock
etc.
(fix)
43,
unpack,
unravel;
disentangle;
set free
etc.
(liberate)
750.
sunder,
divide,
subdivide,
sever,
dissever,
abscind†;
circumcise;
cut;
incide†,
incise;
saw,
snip,
nib,
nip,
cleave,
rive,
rend,
slit,
split,
splinter,
chip,
crack,
snap,
break,
tear,
burst;
rend
&c.,
rend asunder,
rend in twain;
wrench,
rupture,
shatter,
shiver,
cranch†,
crunch,
craunch†,
chop;
cut up,
rip up;
hack,
hew,
slash;
whittle;
haggle,
hackle,
discind†,
lacerate,
scamble†,
mangle,
gash,
hash,
slice.
cut up,
carve,
dissect,
anatomize;
dislimb†;
take to pieces,
pull to pieces,
pick to pieces,
tear to pieces;
tear to tatters,
tear piecemeal,
tear limb from limb;
divellicate†;
skin
etc.
226;
disintegrate,
dismember,
disbranch†,
disband;
disperse
etc.
73;
dislocate,
disjoint;
break up;
mince;
comminute
etc.
(pulverize)
330;
apportion
etc.
786.
part,
part company;
separate,
leave.
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9 separate
Go one's own way; move apart:
— The friends separated after the party.
synonyms: part, split.
Dutch: scheiden, ontbinden, splitsen
10 separate
11 separate
12 separate
Come apart:
— The two pieces that we had glued separated.
synonyms: divide, part.
13 separate
Divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork.
synonyms: branch, fork, furcate, ramify.
Roget 91:
bisect,
halve,
divide,
split,
cut in two,
cleave dimidiate†,
dichotomize.
go halves,
divide with.
separate,
fork,
bifurcate;
branch off,
out;
ramify.
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Dutch: gevorkt, afsplitsen, aftakken, vertakken
adjective
1 separate
Independent; not united or joint.
Polish: oddzielny, odrębny, osobny
2 separate
Standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything:
— A house with a separate garage.
synonym: freestanding.
Polish: samodzielny
3 separate
Separated according to race, sex, class, or religion.
4 separate
Have the connection undone; having become separate.
synonym: disjoined.
Roget 44:
disjoined
etc.
v.;
discontinuous
etc.
70;
multipartite†,
abstract;
disjunctive;
secant;
isolated
etc.
v.;
insular,
separate,
disparate,
discrete,
apart,
asunder,
far between,
loose,
free;
unattached,
unannexed,
unassociated,
unconnected;
distinct;
adrift;
straggling;
rift,
reft†.
[capable of being cut]
scissile [Chem],
divisible,
discerptible†,
partible,
separable.
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